"**We are incredibly well informed yet we know incredibly little**. Why? Because two centuries ago, we invented a toxic form of knowledge called ‘news’. News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easy to digest – and highly destructive in the long run." --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[illusion-of-attention]], [[news-illusion]], [[essentialism]], [[fundamental-attribution-error]], [[sleeper-effect]], [[confirmation-bias]], [[information-bias]], [[personification]], [[story-bias]], [[advertising]], [[marketing]], **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]